Have The New Commies Been Identified?

By Chris Rossini

Well look how this fell into place:

Strong CPAC speech @GovernorPerry. Heavy on defeating ISIS, the communist threat of our time. Also econ freedom at home.Texas model growth.
— Larry Kudlow (@larry_kudlow) February 27, 2015

The "communist threat of our time"?

I guess that can mean only one thing.

Let's rewind back to 1952, when Murray Rothbard wrote of William F. Buckley:

He [Buckley] declares that the "thus far invincible aggressiveness of the Soviet Union imminently threatens U.S. security," and that therefore "we have got to accept Big Government for the duration — for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged … except through the instrumentality of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores." 

Therefore, he concludes, we must all support "large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards and the attendant centralization of power in Washington — even with Truman at the reins of it all."

Replace "Soviet Union" with "ISIS".

Replace the Democrat "Truman" with the Democrat "Obama"....and presto!

Let's not forget that the "communist threat" was kept alive for over half a century. Economics and internal pressure finally put it to rest, much to the dismay of American elites.

Here's Lew Rockwell back in 2000:

“I recall noticing a distinct lack of jubilance on the part of the ruling class when it woke up one day and found its reliable enemy (Soviet Union) had ceased to exist. Since then, the ruling class has engaged in a series of attempts to find some effective substitute for the Soviets, an enemy so formidable that it suppressed the libertarian impulse and inspired the old civic loyalties that the ruling class has come to know and love. But no matter what they have dreamed up…nothing quite works like it used to.”

Kudlow thinks this is it. These are the new commies. They behead people and burn people alive. Sounds pretty formidable.

I think it's safe to assume the direction that U.S. elites are heading in:

Total War.

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Chris Rossini is author of Set Money Free: What Every American Needs To Know About The Federal Reserve. Follow @chrisrossini on Twitter.